Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 10/03/2011 06:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun oct 03 17:28:53 -0300 2011: > >>> Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >>>> Well, we have the Gentoo developer in this very thread. I'm sure they > >>>> would fix their command line if we gave them a pg_ctl that worked. > >>>> Surely the package that contains the init script also contains pg_ctl, > >>>> so they would both be upgraded simultaneously. > >>> What is the fix? If they started the server by using --data-directory, > >>> pg_ctl stop has no way to find the postmaster.pid file, and hence stop > >>> the server. Are you suggesting we remove this ability? > >> I am suggesting they don't start it by using --data-directory in the > >> first place. > > Agreed. If you remove that, the logical problem goes away and it > > becomes a simple problem of dumping the contents of postgresql.conf and > > having pg_ctl (and pg_upgrade) use that. Let me look at how much code > > that would take. > > > > Yeah, this pattern can be changed to have a config file that reads: > > data_directory = '/path/to/data' > include '/path/to/common/config' > > and I presume (or hope) that would meet your need, and not upset the FHS > purists.
Actually, the existing setup is fine as long as there is something that tell us where to find the data directory. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
